Go beyond a basic document

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Video: Create beautiful publications
Watch this short video for an overview of using new typography features to enhance the look of your documents.
Create or edit a table of contents
Add a table of contents to give longer documents a more professional look and make them easier to read.
Add or change sources, citations, and bibliographies
Automatically generate a bibliography from sources for the citations in the document.
Adding headers and footers
Headers and footers are areas in the top and bottom margins of each page in a document.
Create or edit an index
Learn how to create an index.

Share and collaborate

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Use tracked changes
Use the Track Changes feature to view and respond to the changes and comments that you and other authors add to a document.
Compare and merge two versions of a document
See the differences between two versions of the same document.
Sharing documents with other versions of Office
Become familiar with the different formats that you can use to share documents with other Office users.
Password protect a document
Learn to use passwords to prevent unauthorized users from opening or changing a document.

Explore other useful resources

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Interactive: Can't find it in Office for Mac 2011?
Use this visual, interactive guide to find where Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac commands are located in Word 2011
Word keyboard shortcuts
See the full list of keyboard shortcuts, organized into logical categories.
Customize the ribbon
Rearrange, show, and hide tabs on the ribbon.
Known issues in Word 2011
See a list of known issues as well as potential workarounds.

See also

What's New in Word for Mac 2011
Word for Mac 2011 Training
Technical support options